Canadian Hacker Sentenced To 5 Years For Yahoo Security Breach (seattletimes.com) 21
The computer hacker who worked with Russian spies was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday for his role in a massive security breach at Yahoo. "U.S. Judge Vince Chhabria also fined Karim Baratov $250,000 during a sentencing hearing in San Francisco," The Associated Press reports. From the report: Baratov, 23, pleaded guilty in November to nine felony hacking charges. He acknowledged in his plea agreement that he began hacking as a teen seven years ago and charged customers $100 per hack to access web-based emails. Prosecutors allege he was "an international hacker for hire" who indiscriminately hacked for clients he did not know or vet, including dozens of jobs paid for by Russia's Federal Security Service. Baratov, who was born in Kazakhstan but lived in Toronto, Canada, where he was arrested last year, charged customers to obtain another person's webmail passwords by tricking them to enter their credentials into a fake password reset page. Prosecutors said Russian security service hired Baratov to target dozens of email accounts using information obtained from the Yahoo hack.
"Deterrence is particularly important in a case like this," the judge said during the hearing. He rejected prosecutors call for a prison sentence of nearly 10 years, noting Baratov's age and clean criminal record prior to his arrest. Baratov has been in custody since his arrest last year. He told the judge Tuesday that his time behind bars has been "a very humbling and eye-opening experience." He apologized to those he hacked and promised "to be a better man" and obey the law upon his release. The judge said it is likely Baratov will be deported once he is released from prison.
"Deterrence is particularly important in a case like this," the judge said during the hearing. He rejected prosecutors call for a prison sentence of nearly 10 years, noting Baratov's age and clean criminal record prior to his arrest. Baratov has been in custody since his arrest last year. He told the judge Tuesday that his time behind bars has been "a very humbling and eye-opening experience." He apologized to those he hacked and promised "to be a better man" and obey the law upon his release. The judge said it is likely Baratov will be deported once he is released from prison.
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He used information obtained from the Yahoo hack, therefore he had a role in the massive security breach at Yahoo. Good thing he didn't commit a crime using debris from a train crash, or he would have been sentenced for his role in the train crash.
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> lost their career.
Correct. If I remember correctly, the term SCIF came about in 1994, but before that I had a friend from high school that was in the Air Force for just over twenty years that in the early 1980s took a floppy out of secure room that got court marshaled with no retirement. I think the precursor to SCIF was JAFAN 6/9. We all knew the rules, and no one without clearance, not even a janitor, was allowed in. Just sad Hillary allowed not only a maid in the room, but allowed the maid to
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> an illegal alien maid pick-up classified FAXes in a SCIF room
The illegal part hasn't been proved. Yes, her maid had access to FAXes and to Hillary's email:
https://nypost.com/2016/11/06/clinton-directed-her-maid-to-print-out-classified-materials/ [nypost.com]
And even worse asked senders to forward messages to her maid's personal email, but I don't think it was ever proven that her Filipino maid was here illegally. Also, it's strange that the FBI never asked for access to the maid's iMac.
Does anyone else think that... (Score:2)
Does anyone else think that sentences for hacking should be scaled to reflect the actual degree of difficulty?
Yahoo should probably be "Time served in court waiting to be sentenced".
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And I'm confused how anyone would need someone's help breaking into Yahoo, let alone how this could net you prison time.